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Managing Probation with Scarce Resources: Obstacles and Opportunities
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Managing Probation with Scarce Resources: Obstacles and Opportunities
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Author(s)
Cochran, Donald
Corbett, Ronald
Nidorf, Barry
Buck, Gerald S.
Stiles, Don R.
Source(s)
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC)
Sponsor(s)
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC)
Details
Published 1992.
53 pages.
Related Topics
Corrections administration
(Administration)
Financial management
(Administration)
Probation
(Offender Management)
Retrenchment cutback
(Administration)
Retrenchment cutback
(Funding)
Five papers examine cutback management in probation agencies. Specific topics include: the role classification schemes play in making decisions on priorities for supervision; building an external constituency for probation; impact of downsizing on personnel in terms of morale and career stagnation; methods for generating alternative or additional revenue streams; and, action steps that the probation executive facing scarce resources should undertake.
Accession Number: 010348
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